The apparently inevitable rise of the electric car has prompted Australia’s top federal infrastructure advisor to warn of falling revenues from the petrol excise.
In a speech yesterday, Infrastructure
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Startups pitch in to shake up Australia’s energy market
More than 300 people in Melbourne including potential investors, partners and customers will hear pitches for new energy technologies from ten energy startup companies participating in a global accelerator
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‘Renewable energy breeding’ can stop Australia blowing the carbon budget – if we’re quick
Moving to a future powered mainly by renewable energy will be crucial if we are to stay within the global warming limits set out by the Paris Agreement. But building all of this new renewable energy will
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Research program kicks off with big investment
NERA (National Energy Resources Australia) has welcomed the Federal Government’s announcement of a $90 million Future Fuels Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) program.
According to NERA chief executive
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Charging ahead in the Sunshine State
Electric vehicles (EV’s) offer a range of social, economic and environmental benefits but one of the key barriers to electric vehicle (EV) uptake has been a lack of public charging infrastructure which
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Solar PV and wind are on track to replace all coal, oil and gas within two decades
Solar photovoltaic and wind power are rapidly getting cheaper and more abundant – so much so that they are on track to entirely supplant fossil fuels worldwide within two decades, with the time frame
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Tumbling Costs for Wind, Solar, Batteries Are Squeezing Fossil Fuels
Latest BNEF study of comparative costs worldwide shows an 18% improvement in the competitiveness of onshore wind and solar in the last year, and new and rapidly developing roles for batteries.
According
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As the Libs claim South Australia, states are falling into line behind the National Energy Guarantee
As prime minister, Paul Keating used to say that when you change the government, you change the country. On Saturday South Australians changed their government, and now the country’s energy policy could
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Record year for household solar installation
Australian homes and business installed more renewable energy capacity in 2017 than ever before.
According to the Clean Energy Regulator’s Small-Scale Renewable Energy Scheme data, more than 1057 megawatts
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Strategy development to support CST
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) recently released a report outlining how concentrated solar thermal (CST) technology could be a commercially viable form of dispatchable renewable energy
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